We, fail? If you get your courage up, we can’t fail. When
Duncan is asleep—the day’s hard journey has
definitely made him tired—I’ll get his two
servants so drunk that their memory will go up in smoke through the
chimneys of their brains. When they lie asleep like pigs, so drunk
they’ll be dead to the world, what won’t you and I
be able to do to the unguarded Duncan? And whatever we do, we can
lay all the blame on the drunken servants.

75

MACBETH

Bring
forth men-children only,

For thy undaunted mettle should compose

Nothing but males. Will it not be received,

When we have marked with blood those sleepy two

Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,

That they have done ’t?

MACBETH

May you only give birth to male children, because your fearless
spirit should create nothing that isn’t masculine. Once we
have covered the two servants with blood, and used their daggers to
kill, won’t people believe that they were the
culprits?